#FridayFictioneers: Moonlight Sonata

This week’s prompt could so easily have been my chance to showcase my (in development) novel’s characters again, but I decided that it was another chance to continue using my newly-born character from both last week and, initially, the barbed wire prompt from the week before!

Thanks as always go to Madison Woods, without whom this (fast-growing) group wouldn’t even exist. Please visit the link there for her story and many other wonderful tales of varying genres.

My story this week…

Moonlight Sonata

The moon always brings out the crazies.

He grinned in the moonlight, breathing in the smell of dead things and gorging himself on the sweet music of screaming creatures.

He had decided the barbed whip wasn’t enough tonight. He cracked his knuckles, now sticky with blood. It didn’t matter which creatures had stained his fists, all that mattered was the freak’s face he was currently turning to pulp.

He stood, shaking the blood off his hands, crimson spattering his long white coat. He didn’t care.

A giant stood before him all tooth and claw, saliva pouring from its maw. He beckoned the colossus with one hand, relishing the chance for a real fight at last.

I’ve actually been building this character via Friday Fictioneers for the past few weeks, he’s a force for good but his motives are as dark as you can get. Though I still have a lot of work to do on him yet.